This paper describes an adaptive service differentiation scheme for QoS enhancement in IEEE 802.11 wireless ad-hoc networks. Our approach, called Adaptive Stepping Backoff scheme, is derived from the new EDCF introduced in the upcoming IEEE 802.11e st...
This paper describes an adaptive service differentiation scheme for QoS enhancement in IEEE 802.11 wireless ad-hoc networks. Our approach, called Adaptive Stepping Backoff scheme, is derived from the new EDCF introduced in the upcoming IEEE 802.11e standard. Adaptive Stepping Backoff scheme controls the backoff procedure taking into accounts both applications requirements and network conditions. During the high load condition, this scheme makes another random time for the load and tries to avoid the collision with this time. We evaluate through simulations the performance of the Adaptive Stepping Backoff scheme and compare it with the EDCF scheme proposed in the 802.11e and Adaptive EDCF scheme proposed by Lamia Romdhani. Results show that Adaptive Backoff scheme outperforms the basic EDCF, especially at high traffic load conditions.